Chapter 75 You want me to feed you?
The old ancestor was determined to die.
"Our dragon race has always acted with integrity, and the massacre of the wild people at Mount Da'ai is a complete fabrication!"
The words Bai Yanxing had spoken that day flashed through Di Jiang's mind.
Before the Battle of Heaven, Bai Yanxing denied that he had been to Mount Da'ai, and Di Jiang also denied that he had gone to Longquan Mountain to slay the dragon. Both believed that the other had injured someone first, and both claimed that they had fought each other during the process. The two sides could not reach an agreement, and the Battle of Heaven began.
At that time, Di Jiang did not pay attention to whether Bai Yanxing's dragon claw was injured, but now it seems that something is really strange.
Could there really be some misunderstanding?
Or perhaps the Celestial Clan possesses some miraculous cure that can instantly heal someone?
Or perhaps, I didn't hurt him that day?
...
"Isn't it time for you to eat?"
Di Jiang remained motionless, his hands tucked in his sleeves, recalling the details of his fight with Bai Yanxing that day.
Bai Yanxing, unaware of Di Jiang's thoughts, summoned the fairy attendant before the young wolf could respond.
He told them to take the wolf cub to Tianshi Pavilion, where Bai Yanxing usually rested. Since the wolf cub did not have a primordial spirit, it was not yet considered an immortal and could not sustain its life by absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. It had to eat three meals a day on time.
Although Bai Yanxing was suspicious of the wolf cub, he did not want to raise it to death before Duan Jiuyou returned.
They had to eat and drink, and the table was set with eight main dishes—four cold and four hot—all prepared according to Liantang's instructions. She said that the young wolf had a sensitive stomach and needed to eat a light diet, and all the dishes that Dijiang had eaten at Dixi Mountain had been copied and pasted onto Bai Yanxing's table.
Di Jiang narrowed his eyes. How was he supposed to eat this?
They couldn't see Youxing over there, nor could they see him here. They thought he had come to "become a monk."
What was most infuriating was that the celestial servants didn't prepare a chair for Di Jiang; they simply carried him to the table and placed him alongside the food. This naturally reminded Di Jiang of feeding dogs in the human world, where a large bowl is placed on the ground and the dog is made to stick its head into the bowl to eat.
If it weren't for the fact that he couldn't speak freely, Di Jiang would really like to ask Bai Yanxing: Are the people under your command also missing a screw in their heads?
Actually, the fairy servants can't really blame themselves for this. The wolf cub was too small to reach the table when sitting on the chair, and they didn't have a cushion that high, so they had to put it on the table.
A sweet drink was placed in front of Bai Yanxing. He would prepare whatever he had drunk from Duan Jiuyou. He didn't like sweet drinks, but he hoped that his drink would have the flavor she liked so that he could serve her when she came.
He often hoped she would come, but unfortunately she never took the initiative to contact him.
He took a sip of the sweet drink and, finding that the wolf cub showed no interest in eating it, tilted his head and asked, "Not to your liking?"
Di Jiang ignored Bai Yanxing, stared at his hand holding the teacup for a while, and suddenly reached out a claw to poke at his palm.
He was certain that he had seriously injured Bai Yanxing's front paw, and unwilling to give up, he wanted to see it more clearly.
Bai Yanxing was forced to open his palm, looking at the wolf cub with slight surprise. He could only draw one conclusion from this action—
"You want me to feed you?"
Are you perhaps suffering from some kind of illness?
Di Jiang cursed inwardly.
The man and the wolf stared at each other with strange expressions, both reading disgust in each other's eyes.
Di Jiang retracted his claws, and Bai Yanxing glanced at the fairy servant. The fairy servant immediately understood, picked up the bowl on the table, and said, "This subordinate will serve it its food."
Bai Yanxing nodded, and after the wolf cub finished eating, he did not interact with it again.
Meanwhile, the thunder and lightning at Mount Dixi never stopped.
Duan Jiuyou fell asleep to the sound of thunder and woke up to the sound of thunder, inevitably feeling irritable, because the thunder foreshadowed that the four seasons were still crying and making a fuss.
She squinted as she got out of bed, dragging her long skirt and robe to the window. She pushed open the window frame, stared at the torrential rain outside, and then turned back to Emperor Jiangdao on the bed.
"It's so noisy, aren't you going to do something about it?"
He was a light sleeper, and should have woken up long ago with such a loud noise. But he seemed not to hear it at all, not even twitching his ears.
Duan Jiuyou suddenly suspected that he was dead, so he quickly walked to the bedside and shook his body.
"Imperial Territory, Imperial Territory?"
Thankfully, he woke up after a couple of shakes. Duan Jiuyou breathed a sigh of relief and pointed outside, saying, "Why are you sleeping so soundly? The rain is going to ruin Earth Breath Mountain. Hurry up and clean up the Four Seasons' primordial spirits. If this continues, this place will become uninhabitable."
The wolf cub looked at Duan Jiuyou sleepily. It had brought glory to its ancestors yesterday and was so excited that it hadn't slept much all night. It had finally managed to get a short rest, so why was she disturbing it?
It couldn't speak, and occasionally felt a little guilty. It knew that it should have been the one taken away this morning, but it fell asleep, and so did Dijiang.
It didn't know how to explain or make amends. It didn't want to listen to Duan Jiuyou's nagging, and it was also afraid that Duan Jiuyou would scold it, so it simply turned its ears away.
When Duan Jiuyou saw this familiar gesture, his heart sank.
Having learned from her previous experience, she was now able to distinguish between the Imperial Territory and the young wolves from subtle details.
Di Jiang would not turn his ears away and pretend not to hear, much less have such a guilty and cowardly expression!
Duan Jiuyou nervously grabbed the wolf cub, examined it closely, and then let out a low growl: "Shouldn't you have been sleeping in the main hall yesterday?!"
Duan Jiuyou's shout was quite powerful, not only frightening the wolf cubs but also alerting Liantang and the others waiting outside the hall.
They had been pacing outside the hall for a while, Siji crying incessantly, desperately seeking a solution from the Ancestor. No one expected that an even bigger problem had arisen with the Ancestor: the wolf cubs had been switched, and the Imperial Empire had been delivered right to Bai Yanxing!
These two fought from the chaos of the gods to the war for the heavens. One harbored hatred for the Dragon Clan for the massacre of the Wilderness Clan at Mount Dahei, while the other had a grudge against the Wilderness Clan for slaughtering three thousand dragons. It is said that enemies are especially hostile when they meet.
Liantang asked Duan Jiuyou anxiously, "Wouldn't the Lord of the Wilderness go on a killing spree in the Hall of Diligent Governance?"
Duan Jiuyou rubbed his temples, feeling a headache coming on: "Who can he kill in his current state?"
Last night before going to sleep, Duan Jiuyou lay down with Di Jiang. Now that the young wolf has become Di Jiang, it's obvious that the young wolf took his place after he left.
If Di Jiang truly possessed the ability to kill, why would he allow a wolf cub to steal his "den"?
"I told him not to go out so late at night all the time, but he wouldn't listen! Now look what's happened, he's been sent to Bai Yanxing's place to be raised like a wolf cub, let's see how he gets back!"
Duan Jiuyou was so angry he was itching to fight, but in reality he was more anxious than anyone else.
First, the Lord of the Great Wilderness was switched at birth; now, the Four Seasons Demon Waters are flooding Xishan. Outside the window, the rain is falling fast and hard, each drop feeling like it's hitting me.
Among the foolish disciples, Liantang stood out and said to the Ancestor, "Things have come to this point, the only right thing to do is to find a way to quickly switch the Wild Lord and the wolf cub back. The disciples are not skilled in magic, only you..."
—It's passable.
Liantang thought to herself.
"Why don't you go to the palace immediately to see the Emperor and say that you are about to leave and are reluctant to part with the wolf cub, and want to see it one last time before you go? Then, when the Emperor is not paying attention, you can secretly switch the real Lord of the Wilderness with the wolf cub and bring them back."
Duan Jiuyou countered Liantang's question: "How could I bring a wolf cub into the Hall of Diligent Governance?"
Liantang said, "You can transform it into a feather, put it in your sleeve, and bring it into the Hall of Diligent Governance."
Duan Jiuyou asked again, "How can we exchange the wolf cub in front of Bai Yanxing?"
Liantang replied: "Catch them off guard, cover the Wild Lord with your sleeve, take out the real wolf cub and let it transform back into a wolf, then turn the Wild Lord into feathers and bring him back."
Liantang's eyes were firm, as if Duan Jiuyou were omnipotent.
Duan Jiuyou stood up with a sullen expression and demonstrated her magical abilities to Liantang with exaggerated movements.
She pointed at the wolf cub and said, "I need to perform a hand seal to turn it into feathers. Do you understand hand seals? It's like this: you put your hand to your mouth and then chant the Illusion Spell to turn it into feathers. But when I get to Bai Yanxing, I have to perform the hand seal and chant the spell again to turn it back into a wolf cub. After all this, do you think Bai Yanxing is deaf or blind? Do you think he wouldn't know I'm performing magic tricks in front of him?"
Her magic was mediocre, and her transformation magic was even worse. Not to mention that she had just told Bai Yanxing the day before that she was going to the Twelfth Heaven to court death, and then went to tell him the next day that she couldn't bear to part with the wolf cubs. Even the incantation of the Illusionary Spirit Spell was something she couldn't possibly recite word for word!
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